Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-03
ENT,cED FROM HER HONE.
"A Pretty Soiden-haired Girl Elopes-
She Loved a Bachelor As Wears

"A Pretty SoGdeu-hatrad Girl kilopes-
She Loved u 45 Years
Old.
New York telegram: Tairteen-year-
old Nellie Kaap, golden-huired and
blue-eyed. was until recently the prettiest
child silk operative In Paterson, N. j.
About that time she listened TO the stteD-
ions of Cornelius Laauwe, . bachelor
of 40. who never failed to have his pockets
filled with the choicest OF candies when
ever he met her. This, with frequent ice
creams and OF theaters and
horseback rides, induced the child to
secretly promise to become his wife. He
gave the girl presents, and when he won
Der friendship depicted the pleasure OF
living with him In a home over
which she should be mistress.
There would be no more
tiresome work with the reels and shuttlee
he said, for he would supply the purse.
Laauwe was kind, aud he had charmed
Nellie. The girl was bright enough. but
the man's proposition TO leave home
with him was temptation she could not
resist, particularly when he showed her
q fine silk dress which was to be here.
Laauwe, 3 few days before his intended
e~lopement, went to q new boarding
place. This gave him an opportunity
to pack his goods without exciting sus-
picion. Nellie Disappeared from her
home on the Goth. He father innped to
the conclusion that she had gone With
| Laauwe and traced them to Jesey City,
where he lost further trace and returned
home discouraged. For weeks nothing
was heard OF the fugitlves, and Nellie was
given up by her parents as lost to them
forever, when q Tumortbat LAauwe had
been seen with q little girlat P~lattsmouth,
Nsb, gave them some hopes. Platts.
mouth is almost exclusively peopied
by Hoilanders, and Iaauwe lived there
with his parents some years sgo. kaan
put the case in the hands of the Patter-
son police, who sent o description o.
Laauwe and the ehild to the authorities
Of Plattsmouth. The reply was that
both were there, but the police declined
to take them into custody unless Kaar
instituted proper legsl proceedings. Be
fore further steps could be taken the
couple left Plattsmouth, and made fire..
quent changes, never remaining long ii
one place. Finally they were run dowr
at a small town 25 miles from Lincoln
Neb., where after q hard ride a deputy
sheriff arrived at midnight and made
short work of arousing the household
Lsauwe end his child wife ware startled
when told that they were prisoners. Hi
demanded what it all meant, but the
officer had only TO show his badge
and stand in the light inresponse. Laau
we bad nothing to say az soon as he re
conized the authority. He ives told tba
if he surrendered the girl quietly b.
would not be deprived of bis liberty O
present. He was quiet to decide. In
short time Nellie packed her trunk 90,
said goodbye to her husband. Til
parting between the pair wac affectionat
bat when the ride to Lincoln was owe
she was as bright Bs though she hat
never seen LaaHwe. Laauwe will not b
. prosecuted. His marriage is illegal, th
girls parents not having given their cor
sent. When his wife left him bis fund
were getting low, he having been Twin
, on savings from his earnings at Jerse
City.